Comments on: Manpanzees…the missing link?

By: What do you call a fat Chimpanzee?

What do you call a fat Chimpanzee? — Wed, 06 May 2009 18:03:26 +0000

[...] odd biology lesson offered at Experiments In Life: A Chuman is thus a male chimpanzee crossed with a female human. Therefore, a Humanzee or Manpanzee [...]

By: Geof F. Morris

Geof F. Morris — Tue, 06 Dec 2005 22:37:24 +0000

Funny ... I thought ligers were around to let stupid Gen Y movies have something goofy to use in quotes ...

By: Jonathan

Jonathan — Tue, 06 Dec 2005 22:08:07 +0000

Eh, I am not so concerned with purpose. Sometimes it is worth doing something just to prove that it can be done. If we could breed manpanzees in the lab, then we could create a whole race of chimps with human-like intelligence! Think of all of the uses! I am sure that nothing horrible would happen...

By: Paleobabe

Paleobabe — Tue, 06 Dec 2005 21:39:53 +0000

I really should read my post twice before I submit. Sorry about the typos.

By: Paleobabe

Paleobabe — Tue, 06 Dec 2005 21:38:55 +0000

Well Ligers and such are beautiful so I admit I’m smitten even with no use.

You’ve never seen the Simpsons episode where homer breeds tomacco? It’s tomatoes with nicotine in them. The guy who I believe got his inspiration from that episode said his tomacco’s had to much nicotine at the time and that one bite would be deally. I heard that a couple years ago so who knows, maybe he as them breed down to an edible and addictive breed.

By: ashley

ashley — Tue, 06 Dec 2005 20:54:37 +0000

True, we do create mules, however, they have a purpose. They were/are used as work animals. I do not see a purpose in having a tiglon or a liger around. I don’t have a problem with mules, or even tiglons or ligers, I just fail to see how some crosses are useful. Sometimes I think people just get too bored.

Tomacco? I must admit, I’ve not heard of this one. I’m afraid I’ve already gotten it figured out, but I have to ask, what exactly is tomacco? Tomatoes you can smoke I’m hoping I’m not right, but you can never tell with science

By: Paleobabe

Paleobabe — Tue, 06 Dec 2005 18:54:15 +0000

It is kind of unnatural but we do it to create mules all the time. Mainly it’s just something creative humans have been doing since the beginning of time.

Now talk about crazy breeding you should check out the plant world. You know a real guy actually breed tomacco?

By: ashley

ashley — Tue, 06 Dec 2005 14:05:17 +0000

Have you heard of the tiglons? My family and I were playing a trivia game and a question about this cross came up. It is also a tiger and a lion bred together, with the difference being that the lion was female and the tiger male. It is switched in the case of a liger. I’m not sure if it could reproduce though. More than likely not since a Liger can’t.

Anyway, I’m not so sure what the point of breeding tigers and lions together is though. It just seems unnatural. What do you think?

By: Paleobabe

Paleobabe — Tue, 06 Dec 2005 04:13:08 +0000

It’s funny after I read this Humanzee was on Discovery. They determined that Oliver was just a chimpanzee but was genetically different from the normal population. They think an undiscovered small population.

They also had Ligers which are Tigers and Lions breed together. They can’t reproduce though so they can only be done in captivity.

By: ashley

ashley — Mon, 05 Dec 2005 14:52:05 +0000

No offense taken. However, thanks for pointing that out. I guess I wasn’t really paying much attention to the title I chose. Poor wording I suppose. Anyway, thanks for clearing that up for any other readers who may be reading the site